“Fiddler on the Roof” made its stage debut in 1964, during the heyday of the American musical, and it’s both timeless and a product of its time. 

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“Ain’t Misbehavin’” is a joyous, riotous affair, a grand celebration of the innovative American jazz pianist and composer Fats Waller. 

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• Face Off Theatre

The musical “The Last Five Years” is over before it really begins, much like an ill-fated relationship—particularly the five-year marriage at the center of this song cycle written and composed by Jason Robert Brown. 

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• hope repertory theatre

We may have a tendency to forget many of the lessons of childhood having survived them, but it’s amazing how they can come up again and again. 

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• Farmers Alley Theatre
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Do you remember the first show you ever saw in a theatre? How old were you, what was it like? Were the actors dressed in costume, wielding props like fencing swords or brass musical instruments? When they sang, did you feel like dancing along?

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• Circle Theatre

The Barn Theatre in Augusta is rightfully celebrated for their terrific productions of farces. The silliness and high hilarity that come from utterly absurd situations sprung to life with impeccable timing and brilliant ensemble work are a trademark for this long-standing summer stock theatre. 

Muskegon Museum of Art’s John Steuart Curry Weathering The Storm brings together the work of an important and accomplished American regional painter, one whose work was iconic enough to appear in a Hollywood film and honest enough that it led to a backlash so severe, it’s believed, as to have caused his early death.

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With an exceptional symphony, opera company, ballet company and touring Broadway company, Grand Rapids is no stranger to the performing arts. 

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In the world of musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim might as well be God.

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• Farmers Alley Theatre
• Gilmore Piano Festival
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The 2024 Irving S. Gilmore International Piano Festival, as grand as its name implies, is back again with two weeks of legendary performances. It will feature more or less everyone and will take place everywhere and all of the time: 200+ musicians, 100+ events, and 26 venues.

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